DUI checkpoint in Arcata tonight

The Arcata Police Department will conduct a sobriety and driver's license checkpoint in downtown Arcata tonight, between 8 p.m. and 2 a.m.

The department said the exact location of the checkpoint will be announced this evening on the APD Facebook page.

According to an APD press release, 30 people in the U.S. die in motor vehicle crashes involving an alcohol-impaired driver every day, or one death every 48 minutes. In 2011, 10,228 people were killed in alcohol related crashes, about one-third of all traffic-related deaths in the U.S.